[Thinkpad] FYI

[Canyonlands Computer Raypair]

Thanks for telling about this scarey event...  You don't sound as if you are
built like a thinkpad T-43. Who the heck would we use for our expert if you
kicked the bucket. I suppose this was just another adventure to Dr. Elaine.
Was this experience worse than having a teenager?  I have heard it is not
nearly as bad.


RayBay





On 4/11/07, James H. E. Maugham <james.h.maugham at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Thought you might find this of interest.
>
> Last Thursday I was happily preparing the old abode for the arrival of
> family members for the weekend. I was busy scrubbing the large expanse of
> kitchen flooring with the Hoover cleaning machine, when a horse decided to
> sit on my chest!
>
> Of course, Dr. Elaine wasn't home and didn't have her cell phone with her
> so
> I sat there on the horns of a dilemma. Call 911 and hope she returns
> before
> I'm whisked away? Or await her return and then leave for the hospital? I
> sat
> and suffered with the phone in my hand hoping she'd come right back from
> her
> "quick trip", which she eventually did.
>
> She loaded me in her truck and got me to our local hospital quicker than
> the
> ambulance could have, I have no doubt.
>
> Upon arrival she figuratively threw her weight around sufficiently that I
> was taken directly into the emergency room and had an EKG started. Based
> on
> that readout, an ambulance was called and I was thereupon transported the
> few miles down the road to Deborah Heart and Lung Center. If you're gonna'
> go, go First Class!
>
> After three angioplastys, I am now the proud owner of two stents.
>
> The worst part of everything was being forced to lie immobile on my back
> for
> two days after the initial catheterization had to be repeated.
>
> I was released Monday morning at 11AM and am slowly recovering at home
> surrounded by family and friends.
>
> I am in good shape, pain free, but running on a slow bell.
>


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